Early hands-on: OpenAI's Astra excels at browser use and 3D, faster and cheaper than Fable
bindureddy · x · 2026-09-04
Developer Bindu Reddy shares an early readout of OpenAI's unreleased Astra model:
- Strong at 3D modeling tasks
- Browser use is its superpower, with impressive long-running agent loops
- Faster than Fable, with fewer iterations needed, making it cheaper to run
She calls it a very exciting model — but worries fear-mongering could push OpenAI to nerf its capabilities before launch.
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